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[Michael Rudolph]

2008/11/2 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:
> On Saturday 01 November 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote:
>> How would that work?
>
> it depends if you want to just start an exploratory session or actually pitch
> a mostly- or wholey-formed idea. but the essentials generally are:
>
> * be realistic
> * be ready to test
> * be ready to present tangibles beyond words
>
> broken down a bit more:
>
> "be realistic" means things that require technology we don't have access to
> will probably not happen. it means knowing who our audience is and isn't and
> staying reasonably within those lines. it means realizing that changing a
> working component into something that is less likely to work won't happen
> (creating a new component to experiment is realistic, though)
>
> "be ready to test" means theorizing is not worth a whole hell of a lot on its
> own. plasma is not philosophy, it's applied philosophy ;) so be ready to show
> users mockups on paper, have them interact with things, do field research, etc.
>
> "tangibles" means that if all you have is words and you aren't willing or able
> to do at the least mockups it isn't going to happen.
>
>
> come with some solid thoughts and prepared with the above three principles and
> things can move.
>
> every time i've seen someone appear and end up with nothing happening it's
> because they have failed on one or more of the above.
>
> --
> Aaron J. Seigo

Hi Aaron,

now that's really great. Considering that I'm involved for quite a
while now, a sooner note would probably have helped all of us.
Regardless of the quality of my contributions so far, I think they
show at least enough engagement to warrant such a note from you
(anyone in the community) to tell me, that you don't know what to make
of my contributions.

I think your distinction between philosophy and applied philosophy is
rather counter productive, but I won't go into that one; it'd probably
be rather philosophizing than applied philosophizing :-)

I thought we agreed in Frankfurt, when we briefly discussed the ways
of the plamsa, that it would be better to keep the document rather
abstract, to not simply present solutions, but rather point to
mistakes of the past, show what's wrong with current user interfaces
or metaphorically speaking: show the box people are in, so they can
start to think outside of it themselves.

I sure don't mind presenting my own ideas (and see them become a
reality), that'd be absolutely amazing, but wouldn't it be much more
productive right now to bring disruptive ideas to wake everyone up and
thus allow everyone to come up with ideas of their own that are more
than just variations of the win95 idea?

So if you have something different in mind or are simply not satisfied
with my execution on the ways of the plasma, just let me know. I'll
gladly help plasma -- with what I have to offer.

michael